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How good do we have to be: a new understanding of guilt...

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Jewish and Christian religions reinforce feelings of guilt and inadequacy by using the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve to teach that humankind's spiritual inadequacies are inherent. Rabbi Kushner (When Bad Things Happen to Good People, 1981) here retells the Genesis story of the primeval couple to demonstrate that the imperfections of humankind do not merit the loss of God's love, nor should they foster the guilt and anxiety that they often do in a society driven by a misguided attachment to perfection. Combining psychology and spirituality, Kushner invokes the power of acceptance and forgiveness as a means of overcoming the insidious consequences of a preoccupation with perfection.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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231.8 KUS h

Publisher

Boston : Little Brown and company., 1996

Collation

ix,181p.; 19 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-316-50741-5

Classification

231.8

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Subject(s)

GOOD AND EVIL

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